John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England in 1940



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1. Match the pictures with the biographies (A-B-C-D).

2. Check your predictions about these famous people.

3. Look at the verbs in bold in the texts. What do they have in common?

4. The highlighted verbs in the texts are irregular verbs.

Complete the box below with their corresponding infinitive form. (Go to the list of irregular verbs)

|Simple Past |Infinitive form |

|Was | |

|Shot | |

|Became | |

|Grew up | |

|Began | |

|Simple Past |Infinitive form |

|Brought | |

|Was born | |

|Won | |

|Got | |

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|Took | |

5. Read Karen’s daily routine. Then, turn it into the past form.

6. Reading comprehension. Correct the following sentences with information from the biographies.

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B) Edson Arantes Do Nascimento was born in October 23, 1940, in Brazil. He was the son of a minor league soccer player. He grew up in an extremely poor neighbourhood, where the only entertainment for a poor boy was to play soccer. He played for his first soccer team at the age of eleven. Some years later, Brito took him to Santos where he became one of the best of that soccer team. In 1970 he played for Brazil’s World Cup team and brought the title to the team. Then he played for the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. In 1977 the Cosmos won the league championship and finally he retired after that victory.

A) He was born in Liverpool, England in 1940. He wanted to be an artist. In 1962 he formed the band “The Beatles” with Paul Mcartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star. He married Yoko Ono, a Japanese girl. The band divided in 1970. One of the greatest albums was “Let It Be”. In 1975 John's and Yoko's son, Sean was born. On December 8, 1980. Mark Chapman, a young man, shot John outside his home in New York. John died in a police car on the way to the hospital.

John Lennon

Pelé

Steve Jobs

Mother Theresa

D) She was born in Albania in 1910, and died in 1997. Her real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She became famous all over the world for starting the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. She began this work in 1950 and for over forty years, she looked after the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. She decided to become a nun when she was 12. She arrived in India in 1929 and became a nun two years later. In 1946 she received a call from God to leave the convent and help the poor. She was an international symbol of charity, visiting many countries to help poor children. After she died, the Pope started the process to make her a saint.

C) He was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager and attended lessons after school at Hewlett Packard (HP). In 1974, he got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. They developed the Mac. It was the first small computer. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. His name has a connection to innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. His attention to design, function and style won him millions of fans. He died in October 2011, at the age of 56.

Today is Tuesday. Yesterday, she ...

On Mondays, she gets up at 7 o’clock. She has a shower and then she has breakfast with her brother and her little sister. After breakfast she brushes her teeth, gets dressed and then she goes to school by bus. The school starts at 7.30 and finishes at 12.00. She gets home at 1.30 and has lunch with her family. She does her homework and then plays with some friends in the park. In the evening she listens to music and watches her favourite TV programme. She has dinner at 9 o’clock and phones some friends. Finally, she goes to sleep at 11.30.

a) John Lennon died in his apartment in England.

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b) John formed a band at the age of sixty-two.

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c) Pelé’s father played for an important soccer team.

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d) He played soccer for the first time in 1970.

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e) Apple was the name of the first small computer.

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f) Steve Jobs died in the 20th century.

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g) Steve Jobs had a job at Apple and soon he became its owner.

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h) Mother Teresa became a saint when she died.

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i) She won the Nobel Prize because she worked in a convent.

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